Sep 28 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Several civil society groups are pushing for changes to the Liberal government's cybersecurity bill, saying it would undermine privacy, accountability and judicial transparency. In an open letter to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, the ...
Sep 28 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Canada’s financial intelligence agency says a wide range of businesses — from food wholesalers to electronics repair services — are being used to disguise the proceeds of illicit cannabis operations. In a new operational alert, the Financial T...
Sep 23 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Federal agencies are trying to boost efforts to trace the origins of guns used in crimes, but it appears jurisdictional hurdles could prevent the measures from going as far as some would like. The federal government says the RCMP has introduce...
Sep 15 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A new academic analysis has identified at least 75 foreign digital operations of a malicious political or industrial nature directed at Canada since 2010 – from attempts to steal COVID-19-related research to the targeting of Uyghur human right...
Sep 15 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A new academic analysis has identified at least 75 foreign digital operations of a malicious political or industrial nature directed at Canada since 2010 – from attempts to steal COVID-19-related research to the targeting of Uyghur human right...
Sep 14 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The federal government has told United Nations officials that international human rights law does not obligate Canada to actively facilitate the return of its citizens detained in northern Syria. Ottawa says that instead, the duty of respectin...
Sep 8 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A Canadian Security Intelligence Service employee is appealing a Federal Court judge's decision to toss out his discrimination lawsuit against the spy agency. In a newly filed notice, Sameer Ebadi asks the Federal Court of Appeal to overturn t...
Aug 31 2022 — Jim Bronskill — OTTAWA — A new book says Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers urged police in the U.K. not to reveal CSIS's recruitment of a man who allegedly helped smuggle three British teenagers into Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In the book to be published Thursday, "The Secret History of the […]
Aug 29 2022 — Jim Bronskill — OTTAWA — The use of facial recognition technology as a security tool on Parliament Hill would pose substantial legal, privacy and human rights risks — and might even be unlawful, says a study prepared for the parliamentary security unit. It warns the technology could be used to surveil, track, identify or misidentify a person, and […]
Aug 19 2022 — Jim Bronskill — OTTAWA — As of today, individuals and businesses are no longer able to import restricted handguns into Canada, with limited exceptions. The move announced earlier this month is aimed at expediting a key pillar of the federal effort to cap the number of handguns in the country. In May, the Liberal government announced a plan […]
Aug 16 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — One-quarter of front line employees surveyed at Canada's border agency said they had directly witnessed a colleague discriminate against a traveller in the previous two years. Of these respondents, 71 per cent suggested the discrimination was based, in full or in part, on the travellers' race, and just over three-quarters cited their national […]
Jun 23 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — A federal research unit detected what might be a Chinese Communist Party information operation that aimed to discourage Canadians of Chinese heritage from voting for the Conservatives in the last federal election. The Sept. 13, 2021, analysis by Rapid Response Mechanism Canada, which tracks foreign interference, says researchers observed Communist Party media accounts on Chinese […]
Jun 21 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A federal unit that tracks foreign interference has identified what appeared to be a co-ordinated information campaign by Chinese state media outlets to control the domestic narrative around the return of the "two Michaels" to Canada. Rapid Response Mechanism Canada found the effort also seemed intent on fostering confusion or doubt in Canada […]
Jun 16 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Canada's chief justice says the legal system must continue to modernize and innovate, warning it cannot return to pre-pandemic ways of doing business. The Supreme Court of Canada's Richard Wagner told a news conference Thursday that all players in the justice system are reassessing what they do, how they do it, and how […]
Jun 14 2022 — Jim Bronskill — The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Key enterprises in the banking, telecommunications and transportation industries would be among those required to bolster cybersecurity and report digital attacks — or possibly face penalties — under a federal bill introduced Tuesday. The legislation is intended to flesh out Liberal government efforts to protect critical infrastructure following last month's announcement that Chinese […]